and his failed attempts over and over to cut deals with president obama over the past couple of years. and so what you're seeing are republicans, particularly in the house, throwing their hands up, saying you know, we already passed a bill a couple of times to replace the sequester, it is now in the hands of democrats, which is true. democrats in the senate know that the ball is in their court. but the sort of rub now is how to replace the sequester, and it really falls on the same philosophical divide. republicans are saying no, it won't be done with raising taxes and democrats are saying yeah, we do want to raise taxes in addition to cutting spending in order to replace the draconian cuts. >> the automatic spending cuts that go into effect. ron, i want you to listen to what the president said in his state-of-the-union address this week. >> these sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize the military readiness, and devastate areas like education, and medical research. they would certainly slow our recovery and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. and that is why democrats, rep